Define your workspace to include Unit U02 and coordinate system U02 CS. Unit U02 has only grid lines. You will use the Place Linear Member System command and the copy-paste feature to place columns and beams in Unit U02. After placing beams and columns, the view of your model should resemble Figure 1.
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1. Define your workspace to include A2 > U02 and the coordinate system U02 CS.
2. Click the Tasks > Structure command, if not already in the Structure task, and set the Active Permission Group to Structural.
3. Use the Place Linear Member command and the following properties to place a column with the first end at the grid intersections elevation 2 ft 1 in and the second end at the grid intersections elevation 30 ft 0 in:
Connection: By Rule
System: A2 > U02 > Structural > Columns Type category: Column
Type: Column
Section name: W14x53 Cardinal point: 5 Angle: 0 deg
Material: Steel- Carbon Grade: A36
4. Place one more column at the north edge of the grid.
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5. Use the Place Linear Member command and the following properties to place two beams at elevations 18 ft and 30 ft.
Connection: By Rule
System: A2 > U02 > Structural > Beams Type category: Beam
Type: Beam
Section name: W16X67 Cardinal point: 8 Material: Steel- Carbon Grade: A36
The view of your model after placing the beams should resemble Figure 4.
Figure 4: Placed Columns and Beams
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6. Select all the members you have just placed. Click the Copy command on the Common toolbar. You can also press CTRL+C keys on the keyboard or select the Copy command on the right-click shortcut menu. Clicking Copy copies all the selected members to the clipboard.
Figure 5: Shortcut Menu
7. The system will prompt you to select a reference point for the objects being copied.
When you paste objects at a point, the copied objects are positioned relative to this point, but the final position of the member is then computed based on the
positioning relationships that control the member position. This example will illustrate this idea. In this case, click and select the end of the column as the reference point.
8. Press the CTRL+V keys on the keyboard, select the Edit > Paste command, or click the Paste command on the Common toolbar to paste the selected members from the clipboard.
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9. The Paste dialog box appears. The Paste dialog box shows relationships that can be established between the objects you are pasting and the objects that exist in the model. These are the relationships that existed between the objects you copied and design objects that were not in your copy set. There are two categories of such relationships, those required by the objects you are pasting and those that are optional. The system parent is an example of a required relationship. All design objects must have a system parent. The frame connections are an example of optional relationships. A member can exist without a frame connection relationship.
Behavior of the Options in the Paste Dialog Box:
• If all design objects that you copied had relationships to one object that you did not copy, then the Paste dialog box will list this relationship only once. All pasted objects will have relationships to the same object as they originally did.
• If you paste the objects into the same model they were copied from, the Paste dialog box will offer the original objects as the default inputs for the
relationships created on pasting the objects. You can keep the default setting or select a row and identify a different object. When you select a row, the original parent object is highlighted so that you can graphically see what type of input is needed in the context of the objects you copied.
• Selecting the Show Clipboard window option will display a window that shows the copied graphics and the related objects that were not copied. This will help you understand the graphic object that is needed when you paste the copied objects into a different model. In this example, you will not need the clipboard window because you will see the original related objects highlight when you pick a row in the Paste dialog box.
• Selecting the Keep original permission groups option will assign objects created by the paste function to the permission group of the corresponding original object. This is called mapping permission group by name. However, if the person pasting the objects does not have Write access to that permission group, then the object will be assigned to the active permission group. If the Keep original permission groups option is not checked, all newly created objects will be assigned to the active permission group.
• Selecting the Paste in place option will paste the copied objects at exactly the same position as the original objects. This option is used most often when users paste objects in a different model from the original.
• If you are not using the Paste in place option, the system will prompt you to enter the Paste to point.
• The Paste command places objects at their original position or at the points you indicate. Then, the system recalculates the position of the pasted objects using the relationships you have established. This recalculation can change the size and position of the newly created objects based on the data from related objects you selected in the Paste dialog box. In this example, it does not matter where you click for the Paste from and Paste to points because the position of the members are fully controlled by relationships to the grid lines.
In this example, some of the copied members have frame connections involving Grid Lines that were not copied. Use the Paste dialog box to select new Grid Lines to define the new position of the members.
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Use the arrow keys to move the selection in the Paste dialog to the first grid line input. You can also click on the Description field to select the row. You see that the grid line located at –5 ft Easting and 30 ft elevation is highlighted in yellow (refer to Figure 7).
Select the new input grid line located at Easting of 20 ft and Elevation of 30 ft in the graphic view. This grid line is highlighted in red in Figure 7.
Figure 7: Select New Grid Line Input
The grid line inputs associated with the Northing grid planes will remain unchanged. An example is shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Keep the Northing Grid Line Inputs
Use the arrow keys to move down and highlight the input grid line indicated in yellow. Select the new input located at Easting of 20 ft and Elevation of 18 ft. This
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grid line is highlighted in red in Figure 9.
Figure 9: Select New Grid Line Input
Keep all other default inputs.
10. Click OK in the Paste dialog box and then click any point in the space to paste the copied objects. In this case, you can click anywhere in the space to define the Paste to point because the location of the members is controlled by the reference planes. After pasting the selected members, the view of your model should resemble Figure 10.
Figure 10: View of the Model After Placing Second Set of Columns and Beams
11. Now, paste again to place the copied members at east plane location 40ft 0in. After pasting the selected members, the view of your model should resemble Figure 11.
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Place the other members in Unit U02 using the By Rule frame connection option and using copy and paste such that the model resembles Figure 12.
Figure 12: View of the Model After Placing All Objects
Tip:
• Place the members of just one bay and use copy and paste to model the other three.
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